Juridicheskiy vestnik Samarskogo universiteta Juridical Journal of Samara UniversityJuridicheskiy vestnik Samarskogo universiteta Juridical Journal of Samara University2542-047X2782-2990Samara National Research University836910.18287/2542-047X-2020-6-4-142-145Research ArticleCRIMINAL PROSECUTION: THE PROBLEMS OF DEFINITIONTalalaevK. A.talalaev.k@ya.ruSamara National Research University30122020641421451002202110022021Copyright © 2020, Talalaev K.A.2020<p style="text-align: justify;">The author of the article uses historical and comparative legal research methods and studies the term criminal prosecution. The term criminal prosecution is compared with other similar concepts in the article. The author examines the historical process of formation of this concept. The author of the article will outline the content of the discussion about the term criminal prosecution. The modern definition of this term is not correct in the criminal procedure law of the Russian Federation. The author proposes a new definition of the term. Criminal prosecution is the procedural activity of the prosecution in order to expose a person of committing an act prohibited by the criminal law.</p>уголовное преследование, уголовный процесс, обвинение, предварительное расследование, судебное преследование.criminal prosecution, criminal process, accusing, preliminary investigation, judicial prosecution.[1. Mazyuk R. V. Ob ispol'zovanii poniatii «ugolovnoe presledovanie», «sudebnoe presledovanie», «presledovanie» v ustave ugolovnogo sudoproizvodstva 1864 g. [About the use of the term «criminal prosecution», «judicial prosecution», «prosecution» in the Statute of criminal proceedings 1864]. Glagol” pravosudiia [Glagol of Justice], 2014, no. 2 (8), pp. 29–33. Available at: https://cyberleninka.ru/article/n/ob-ispolzovanii-ponyatiy-ugolovnoe-presledovanie-sudebnoe-presledovanie-presledovanie-v-ustave-ugolovnogo-sudoproizvodstva-1864-g; https://www.elibrary.ru/item.asp?id=25292151 (accessed 02.09.2020) [in Russian].][2. Cheltsov M. A. Sovetskii ugolovnyi protsess [Soviet criminal procedure]. Moscow: Gosiurizdat, 1951. 511 p. [in Russian].][3. Strogovich M. S. Kurs sovetskogo ugolovnogo protsessa: v 2 t. T. 1 [Course of the Soviet criminal process: in 2 vols. Vol. 1]. M oscow: Izdatel'stvo «Nauka», 1968, 468 p. Available at: http://kalinovsky-k.narod.ru/b/strogovich/Strogovich.html [in Russian].][4. Strogovich M. S. Ugolovnoe presledovanie v sovetskom ugolovnom protsesse [Criminal prosecution in the Soviet criminal process]. Moscow: Izd-vo AN SSSR, 1951, 191 p. [in Russian].][5. Strogovich M. S. Ugolovnyi protsess: uchebnik [Criminal procedure: textbook]. Moscow: Izd-vo MIu SSSR, 1946, 511 p. [in Russian].][6. Sukhareva N. D. Prekrashchenie ugolovnogo presledovaniia na stadii predvaritel'nogo rassledovaniia: dis. ... kand. iurid. nauk: 12.00.09 [Termination of criminal prosecution at the stage of preliminary investigation: Candidate's of Legal Sciences thesis: 12.00.09]. Irkutsk, 2002, 178 p. Available at: https://www.dissercat.com/content/prekrashchenie-ugolovnogo-presledovaniya-na-stadii-predvaritelnogo-rassledovaniya [in Russian].][7. Agabekov K. S. O nachale ugolovnogo presledovaniia v usloviiakh okhranitel'nogo pravosudiia [On Initiation of Criminal Proceedings in the Conditions of Protective Justice]. Mirovoi sud'ia [Magistrate Judge], 2019, no. 1, pp. 14–18. Available at: https://www.elibrary.ru/item.asp?id=36685769; https://wiselawyer.ru/poleznoe/94589-nachale-ugolovnogo-presledovaniya-usloviyakh-okhranitelnogo-pravosudiya [in Russian].]